Ulf-Diether Soyka
Ulf-Diether Soyka (born June 5, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer, conductor and lecturer and has three adult sons.
Soyka completed his diploma studies with Friedrich Cerha (composition) and Otmar Suitner (orchestral conducting), as well as the teaching post for music education at the University of Music and Performing Arts , Vienna. From 1979 to 1981 he was a lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna , in 1983 he received the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition. He then worked as a freelance composer and occasionally took on a conductor's position (first performances by composers who were expelled in 1938). He fulfilled numerous composition assignments and has also been a lecturer for composition and composition at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna since 2000 .
Musical creation and style of composition
Soyka has so far preferred to write music for the concert hall, for orchestra, chamber music, choral works, operas, etc. His compositional style was described by Dr. Werner Pelinka 1987 in the culture magazine “morgen”: “Soyka's music is committed to dodecaphony , but not to dogmatic serial, but to an extended twelve-tone spelling, which is determined by melodic and rhythmic ideas and feelings. This component connected to the “emotio” causes a spontaneous understanding in the listener, even if the listener is unable to follow the structures and details guided by the “ratio”. His tonal language is varied, melodious and beautiful as well as rhythmically lively and powerful ”. Soyka also researched - based on this - the connections between chromatics and microton music and has published microintervallic chamber music works since 2007 . a. also in his (very melodic) opera “Ninja”, performed in concert in 2012 (in which the microtonality of one of the “main characters”, the robot Androido, is assigned as a leitmotif, in order to adequately represent its “emotionality”).
Compositions (selection)
- Operas (e.g. "Leyla", premiered in 2003 at the Künstlerhaus Vienna), "Terpsichore", "Ninja" and the like a.
- Ballet music (e.g. "Das Idol", premiered in 1990 in the Klagenfurt City Theater)
- three piano concerts (CD with Alma Sauer and Oliver v. Dohnanyi 1987, world premiere at the Baku Philharmonic, Azerbaijan 1993, soloist: Rena Rzaeva, conductor: Rauf Abdullaev)
- two violin concerts (world premieres: Gernot Winischhofer, Elena Denisova)
- Cello Concerto (premiered by Mark Varshavsky)
- Horn Concerto (for James Lowe, Birmingham 2004)
- Symphonies (the 1st premiered in 2006 in Bulgaria, conductor: Grigor Palikarov)
- Masses, oratorios (e.g. Requiem with Consolation, Pentecostal oratorio, etc.)
- Choral works
- Song cycles
- Chamber music
- Microtonal chamber music (IGNM concert with H.-A. Stamms enharmonic microtone organ, etc.)
Opus
Soyka's catalog raisonné is arranged in work groups:
- op. 1 masses, oratorios, sacred music;
- op. 2 chamber music in a smaller cast;
- op. 3 larger chamber ensembles;
- op. 4 string / chamber orchestra;
- op. 5 instrumental concerts;
- op. 6 song;
- op. 7 film, dance, light music and audio art;
- op. 8 school music;
- op. 9 keyboard instruments solo;
- op. 10 orchestra;
- op. 11 choir;
- op. 12: operas;
Conducting activities (selection)
- Conducting at the Vienna Konzerthaus ( Richard Strauss , Pro Arte Orchestra)
- In the ORF broadcasting hall Vienna ( Johann Nepomuk David , Pro Arte-Orchester)
- In the Großer Musikvereinssaal Wien (Golden Hall) Vienna (Ulf-Diether Soyka, 2nd saxophone concert, world premiere with the Lower Austrian Tonkünstlerorchester)
- Austrian Music Days in Bulgaria 2001–2003 (suite for string orchestra, world premieres with the Plovdiv Opera Philharmonic Orchestra and others)
- Repertoire by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Joseph Haydn , Ludwig van Beethoven , Franz Schubert , Johannes Brahms a . a.
- Numerous premieres, e.g. B. composers expelled from music in 1938
Awards
- 1975 and 1977 scholarship from the Alban Berg Foundation
- 1980 and 1987 Theodor Körner Composition Prize
- from 1981 multiple work grants from the City of Vienna for composition
- 1983 Austrian State Scholarship for Composition
- 1983 Prize of the State of Lower Austria for music
- 1985 Culture Prize of the City of Klosterneuburg
- 1985 Composition Prize in Tolima / Colombia
- 2002 Composition Prize for Choral Music based on texts by Wilhelm Busch
- 2008 AICE cultural exchange composition prize for choral music
Employment and functions in musical life
1982–1983 teaching (grammar school) 1983 Austrian state scholarship for composition. Afterwards freelance composer and occasionally a conductor. Soyka wrote numerous extensive commissioned compositions in the next few years and has been a lecturer for composition and composition at the Prayner Conservatory in Vienna since 2000.
Other multi-year functions: high school teacher, head of a church choir, board member in the Austrian composers' union (serious music), specialist lectures at English and Australian music universities, music journalistic articles in various specialist journals (Austrian music magazine, etc.), leader of music symposia, functions in AKM , ÖGZM, music union etc., speaker at the Vienna summer seminars for new music, founding and management of an ensemble for new music, coordinating the Pro-Arte orchestra, founding and organizing the “Project World Premiere”, speaker at the intercultural Ekmelik symposium Salzburg, u. Ä.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Neue Kronen Zeitung - Friday, June 26, 1981
- ↑ MORGEN cultural magazine No. 52/1987 under the title "An atomic opera as warning and consolation", pages 68–70, the quote is from page 70, lines 1 - 25 / see also: http: //www.soyka-musik .at / content / 70/0 / biography.htm
- ^ Neue Westfälische - Monday, May 13, 1991
- ↑ The Standard - 5./6. May 1990
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soyka, Ulf-Diether |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |